Unsafe at Any Speed (PyCon UK, 26th October 2017)

Unsafe at Any Speed (PyCon UK, 26th October 2017)

The default settings of some libraries and tools are so useless, or even dangerous, that they should never be used. While they give the impression of being easy to use or performant, they actually represent traps for the unwary user. I look at some examples, consider the reasons why these bad defaults might have arisen, and offer some guidelines for setting up projects with good defaults.